How to get rid of eye strain?

[bbowden]

Okay so it is lunch time and your eyes are strained already and you need to work until 5. What do you do to get rid of the eye strain.

Do you try and relax them with closing eyes hot/cold objects or do you to eye exercises?

I would have thought exercises because your eye is surely strained from focusing on one distance which over works the muscle(s).

[Robert Latkany MD]

Rest and warm or cold packs usually help for a short period of time. But someone needs to check your need for glasses or for convergence insufficiency or accomodative issues.